sroni

So, I made it. Yay! I discovered how to not really experience jet lag when it’s seven in the morning my time, but 11 at night where I’m at … don’t sleep on the plane. Even though in my brain it was early morning, because I napped from 12:30 to 1:00 in the morning, by the time seven/eleven rolled around, I was ready for bed again. Oh, by the way … I’ve seen more 7-11s here than I did in the States … it made me laugh when I saw three stores in a row: 7-11, McDonald’s, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The highlight of my days here (besides getting to meet the students and other people; the students are great, and I wish I could have gone to school with people like them … and my suspicion was right: I’ve always been the only redhead in a room so far … I was almost certain that I would almost always be the only one) … Anyway, we’ve been working with a drama camp for the last two days, and we were doing a characterization exercise with the kids yesterday where we give one kid at a time a character’s situation, and they have to set the table with that in mind. They can’t say anything; they can only communicate it through eye and body control. We call it (ingeniously) the table setting exercise. All the kids were good, but one kid had me turning red with laughter … which then turned to blue. He comes in, stepping very heavily, and sets his side of the table very controlled, and nice … and then he stomps to the other side, and knocks the chair over, slams all the dishes down, not caring where they go … blows his nose in the napkin and shoves it in the glass … His situation? His neighbor hit his car, and won’t pay for it, and now the neighbor’s coming over for dinner. Red, then blue … finally I breathed and started the process over again.

This is such a great experience … and things are a lot cheaper here than in the States. I was told that it would be, but I was expecting it to be at 75% price, not 75% off. My unit leader had to buy a computer cord, and in the States, the cord cost around $100, but yesterday, it cost about $15 US. How stinking awesome is that? So, my dad mentioned buying me a Palm Pilot, and I think I’m going to tell him to send me the money he would have spent on one so that I can buy a laptop and bag. Seriously. It’s stinking awesome.

Well, I should go to bed. No, wait. I want to stay up a little longer so that I can see the double moons … Mars is the closest to the Earth that I will ever see, and it’ll look like there are two moons because of it … or at least, that’s what the internet says. And if you can’t trust the internet, who can you trust? :)